Category: Top of the Lake

Almost immediately after Top of the Lake finished its run on the Sundance Channel, it became available on Netflix streaming. Based on reviews from the TV critics that I read regularly, I decided to watch the series and then write about it. Everything went well over the first two episodes; my wife and I watched an episode in the evening and I wrote about it the next day. Then came the weekend and we binged on the remaining five episodes, which means I can’t possibly do a post for each episode. All that’s left is my overall thoughts.

My impression from the first episode of Top of the Lake is that the world of the series is not a pleasant place to be a woman. Episode Two reinforced that feeling and also added that it’s also not a pleasant place to be a dog.

As with all of you, I don’t have time to watch every TV show to figure out which shows are good and which shows aren’t. I depend on people like Alan Sepinwall and the gang at the AV Club to give me a head’s up. Two months ago, it seemed like everyone was talking about Top of the Lake (from Jane Campion and Gerald Lee) as being something I had to watch. As I don’t have cable, I checked the Top of the Lakewebsite to see if it was available by other means and the site said that I could buy episodes from Amazon. Cool. Only problem: the show wasn’t available on Amazon.

The good news now is that all seven episodes are available on Netflix streaming, and last night I watched episode one, entitled “Episode One”.